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Messengers: Children’s Village Transformative Mentoring

Messengers: Children’s Village Transformative Mentoring

Videographers: Deborah S. Esquenazi & Benny Karas

Editor: Deborah S. Esquenazi

The Children’s Village in the Bronx offers mentors to teenagers who face aging out of foster care. The mentors, or “credible messengers,” are former foster children themselves. They use writing and conversation and draw from their personal experiences to motivate these foster teens.